“We’ve been looking to expand to a second location for a while now,” Patrick Freer, owner of Snitz Creek Brewery, said. “Our license has an allowance for an additional site for storage and a tasting room.”

An opportunity came up to open the tasting room in the Flight Path Sports Park in the old Bounce U building, 318 Taxiway Road, South Londonderry, according to Freer. Snitz Creek Brewery currently has a location at 7 N. Ninth St., Lebanon.

“We are going to occupy half of that space initially,” Freer said. “We will eventually build a brew pub in the same building.”

Once the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board gives their approval, Freer said the tasting room should come together quickly.

“We are hoping to open the tasting room the first weekend in June,” Freer said. “There’s not much to do to the building as far as the tasting room is concerned, just some cosmetic stuff. We’ll add the bar and plumbing, and we’ll be good to go.”

Beer will be served by the pint and by the growler, according to Freer, who also said that food will be available to customers even though the tasting room will not have its own kitchen.

“We are going to have food trucks come in every night,” Freer explained. “We are going to have an arcade, too, with full size arcade games and pinball machines.”

Snitz Creek Brewery’s tasting room will be open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays according to Freer, but he said there is a possibility they will open on Thursdays if demand dictates.

In the long term, Freer is planning to turn the location into a brew pub without having to shut down the tasting room operation.

“When we are ready to start working on the brew pub, we’ll renovate the other side while the tasting room is open,” Freer said. “Then, when the restaurant and bar are finished on the brew pub side, we’ll swap and do some renovations to the tasting room side.”